Tuesday, August 05, 2008

On the inhabitation of staged-set spaces (2)

"What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we take the elevator,sit at a table in order to eat... How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare." Further ruminating on the nature(s) of staged architecture, Sam Renseiw crudely investigated a spiralled edifice, somehow toggling between day-dream and benign nightmare, puzzled by the oozing, popular veneration of the place. View the short meander by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 615,01'48'', 10.9Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions atBlip.tv)Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short scene of relief on a sweltering summer day. (lum # 135, 01'00'', 5.1MB, Quicktime/mov) Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a moment of flip-flop, goind through phases (patafilm #230, 01'34'[14.08 2006 post],7 MB, Quicktime/mov)

About Me

'Pataphysics, an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, is a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. Defined as: "The science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments". SPACETWO : PATALAB has functioned in this spirit since 2005 as a dynamic, experimental visual / spatial research laboratory run by SAM RENSEIW. Laced with quotes and useful links, Patalab02 is a forum for subtle, intriguing, complex, enchantingly moving imagery experiments exploring body-space morphologies and other architectures. Enjoy! All posting are videos. Click on the image or the appropriate link in the text to enter. For a view of older videos, see the archive link.